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If any young people want to know what the early Internet was like, it was mostly visiting random website about stuff like Why Ninjas Are So Awesome, and getting into 68 day long arguments on their forum with some guy named shaolin_master69 about whether Bruce Lee could have beat up Mike Tyson.

One thing that was great about those old forums was that there were no votes, so no one could tell just much of a moron everyone else thought they were. Really creates a Wild West atmosphere of stupidity that is missing today.

Nah I said the atmosphere of "Wild West" stupidity. Today the stupidity is organized, directed, co-opted, concentrated, reinforced, amplified by algorithms, harnessed by corporations, etc. Back then it was just pure, unfiltered thoughts from some dumbass across the world. Much better.

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